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IFFAIltfi IN ILLINOIS. 4-. IS ^tWTHRJESTlNO ITEMS GATHERED VSOH VARIOUS SOPKCEA "'Krhat Our Xelfftibors An Dotac--Matter* •of Ooweral and Wal Id^erest -- M»r- •' rlages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes ^ *--Pcraoanl Pointers. ~Followin:i Is the last report of the }P|B AVenther-Crop Bureau: .temperature nod minBbiiia of thfl past . . ®*v'e been np to a sta.3< liable aveiag« and l& few exceptions the amount of preiipita- wcni ou been above the normal. Extracts from Teporta of Government signal k rvioe observers the various counties of the Htate are as "follow a : fl7' I UeKalb--Spring wheat is in excellent condi- No complaint of fly. All crops are doing !•• .-v>r.;i.arroji--\v nat » , #rnplaintof fly, J$o». ^ .ITelL Du Tage--The whPst, spring and winter, • . ^promises well. No fly or other insect is in- •/• Jurinp. , (irundy--Bains of the past week affected crops jte- : \ itavorably fc. -j Henry--Sesrcly any wbea1; raised in this , ' ijounty. Condition is about ?;> per cent. - Henderson--Wheat condition t^>od. No fly of in the county. Weather very favor- »v'; jpble. ^ ^ Jit;> Kendall--What little wheat there is looks v' s ^ Knox--The wheat crop not as satisfactory as j' " « was ten days ago. No Hessian fly heard of tn '*P. <C tSbis county. fi' > Ijivin<?Bton--Some wheat has been plowed np. g *The wheat is heading now with heads good length. No cheat reported. } v Marshall--But little winter wh^at Is raised in ' V wits connty. What there is is in excellent oon- ^'ii'.Hition. La Salle--Corn and all ether crops, except -Jt, looking well. The wheat crop will be a average one. ,• McHenry--Wheat looking well. •' v * v Ogle--Wheafc looking well; no Hessian fly re- • ijpovted. •v Peoria--Wheat looks well. - Stepnenson--wheat np to the Average. The * '/Acreage is small. Farmers are raising only f r;#nougb for their own nse. Grain and grass are J£'~ *4oing well. f Woodford--Three is but a small acreage of •Wheat, bet what there is promises a good crop. < " Whiteside--Wheat is in excellent condition. " Warren--Corn and oats are looking well. jt9'i ' v Brown--Wheat, will make half a crop. Champaign--Wheat ie looking well. The fly r * lt Is not injuring much. Probably one-fourth was .-«> flowed up for corn. w' Coles--Fully one-third of the wheat has been !•' flowed up and the rest will probably make half ; |lcrop. No fly. •<* Clinton--Wheat will average about 55 per t: . / ieut- Many acres have been plowed up and put 'TBI corn. • ' Tx'<>«gla8--About one-half of the wheat has yeen plowed up for other crops. The remain- , wig yield -will average about two-thirds of a crop ;• /-ynth favorable weather. Edgar--There is but little wheat. A large pro- <*, ' Jruit, full a-* . • •' v; MnW C ^ fj|^>rtion is dead and has been plowed up. '*,i Franklin--About one-fourth of an average 4' "<rop of wheat has been sown and about one-half that will be harvested. Oats,are almost a ^ *otal failure. Corn doing well. • Fulton--The wheat crop iu general will be be­ low the average. There are some complaints of the Uy, and a number of fields have been plowed Fayette--Wheat has been plowed up freely and ' ' •-"tiiuch more would have been plowed up if it * t <eould have been foreseen that it would turn into ,," : *heat. 4 " ' Greene--Whoit has been fully one-third y flowed up. There are some few flelds of fair f v^heat. The fly has injured some flelds. Most .«f the fields show a great amount of cheat, f ; Hamilton--Less than half crop of wheat •_ '<own. It cannot make over 6ti per cent, of a • ^fielcL The fly has made no trouble, but in - *|ome places the fields are half cheat. Corn is /joint; well. Oats have been ruined by insects. "" Trait, except berries, will be scarce. ' ^ : . Iroquois--Fine growing weather for corn. No Hessian fly heard of in the county. Some fields - -Till make a full yield, and some only half a . «®rop, but the av< rage yield will be about two- V•birds. Fruit crop the largest in twenty years. Jasper--But little whtat has been sown. 1 fields have a good deal of cheat. Most of :U3|»he wheat is doing well and will make a good J J »i#rop if the weather continue* favorable. • ' , 1 X/Ogan--Wheat is looking well, but very thin y • most fields. The fly has done no apparent ' 'damage yet. >, 1 2 Montgomery--There is but little wheat letti - .Mnany fields having been plowed up for corn; . ~ 4'atB are poor. ' Morgan--Wheat has been badly hurt by the •' r*y. Some has lieen plowed up for corn. ; McLean--There is leBB than one-half a stand T •- ;<>f wheat, and what is left is badly mixed with •- «heat. Pike--What wheat there is is good, but there fv :, !Is very little of it. No damage by fly. Randolph--Oats «N poor. ITie wheat, *1- 'i'4liough very thin, has well-filled heads; some • *vj|ield8have been plowed up for oats. i • . L- '&• Richland--Wheat is looking well, and will irobably average 80 per cent.; about 5 per cent, an been plowed up. Oats are poor. Schuyler--Estimates for the county vary from i to (ia% per cent, of an average wheat crop. &ts and corn are doing well. Scott--Wheat badly,injured by the fly; some . jfii'idsbave been plowed up. The prospects are about one-half a crop. £. ̂ anganiou--Wheat in this section is a failure. ';%hree-fonrth8 of the acreage seeded has been §lowed under. The remaining one-fourth wijl at yield one-thud of an average crop. Corn rimliseis a full orop. , Tazewell--Good prospect for a fair yield, of Vi,: f Wabash--Oats^ are entirely ruined, while % • $ '^"trheatiB suffering from "midgs." • --One branch of the Alton fraudulent flection case was decided at Springfield last week, in the oase of Ferdinand Vol- lirecbt. There wei*e two indictments against Volbrecht charging him with idinp and procuring the issa&nce and se of frandolent certificates of nstural- ze-tion, issued by the City Cotirt of Al- '^fton just prior to the general election of 888. The decision of the Court admits at the objections to the indictment ,„ere merely technioal and that in general ^%lie indictments were sufficient in form, •^'j^but declares that a fatal objection was .^/^SisoloMd in the closing averment to e»ch ••fefc^count in stating that there was no ap- " ' pearanoe before, or evidence of any jndi- £^|cial action whatever by the City Court of .j Alton, the alleged falBe j-apers having, according to the averments, been manu­ factured by the clerk ot some one inde­ pendent of even the semblance of a •court. The Court is of opinion that the sections of the statnte on which the in­ dictments were founded did not include «uch a oase, because there was a specific » < ^section, No. f>42S of the Federal Statutes, : .(^concerning the act of any clerk or other ' ^officer m the court who may falsely issue J.1.-'certificates of naturalization "without V* '-^kany appearance and hearing of the ap- L ttirfplican^ in court." --Ex-Judge John A. Jameson, well known as a lawyer and jurist, and prominent member of * the Chicago bar, is dead. •jiy --The Illinois division of the Sons of Veterans is taking steps to have all the •Vmembers of the order in the United States aid in placing the three allegorical fig­ ures of War, Justice, and Peace on the National Lincoln Monument * at Oak Itidge, near Springfield. . --John Netharton. a Centralia drag committed suicide by taking twen- fi - % "ty-seven grains of morphine. V -j, --A convention of the Illinois Grain Merchants' Protective and Insurance As­ sociation was held last week at Spring- Held. The association has beta incor­ porated; Isaac Van Ostrand, of Hey- worth, is President, and S. K. Marston, t * of Onarga, Secretary. A resolution was , . X passed favoring the election of the Kail- road and Warehouse Commissioners by the people. --Dr. Joseph P. Boss, one of Chicago's most eminent and successful physicians, is dead. He was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1828, and has practiced djedicine 4 in Chicago since 1853. ' *'l --J. W. Funk, of Bloomington, has been asked to go to New South Wales by if 'H./- the government of that province Mr. competition for the $125,000 reward for a -4'"" device that would exterminate the rabbits in New South Wales, and the fact that he has been asked to come and operate the trap he has invented iadiaates t|mt ha will be suocessful. " The great Masonic Temple In Chicago is an assured fact. Work will soon begin on the structure, which will be located on the northeast corner of State and Randolph stroets. It will be a mam­ moth building. It will have a frontage on State of 171 feet and on Bsndolph of 113 feet. There will be eighteen atones, and from the ground level to the roof will be 260 feet. This is twenty feet higher than any part of the Auditorium, except the little structure on the tower, and only a few feet lower than that. Nearly f 1,000,000 was paid for the land, and the building will cost $2,000,000 to $2,500,000. The upper floors--probably the three upper ones--will be devoted to Masonio purposes. There will be lodge rooms great and small, drill rooms for the use of the military branches of the order. Then there will be a magnificent hall or assembly room, unexcelled for the purpose anywhere.' The work of tearing down the buildings that now occupy the site will be begun at once, and as soon as the ground is cleared work on the new structure will proceed, --Chicago dispatch: At the meeting of the Sanitary District Commissioners on Wednesday Judge Prendergast pulled the rope that set the real canal-digging machinery in motion. He introduced an order, which was passed, directing the chief engineer to make all the necessary investigations, borings, examinations and surveys between the Chicago Eiver and Summit to enable the trustees to locate any one of not less than four routes for the purpose of constructing the drainage channel, and from Summit to Lake Jqliet to make like investigations of the DesPlaines Valley for a like purpose. Judge Prendergast said there were at least four routes that the channel might take between the south branch and Sum­ mit, and he desired the engineer to col­ lect data to enable the Commission to deeide which was the best one. His or­ der, he said, did not exclude the Cain- met channel and was not so intended. --Ilinois patents: J. C. Anderson, Chi­ cago c^ble grip; A. C. Andrews, Chicago, leather-softening machine; O. P. Briggs, Chicago, pipe-making machine, machine for making corragated pipe; J. F. Brown, Chicago, paper punch, order holder; L H. Brunemeyer, Aurora, trace buckle; E. L. Buckingham, ' Lewis town, vehicle sh tft support; F. and C. Buehrig, Minier, egg tester; W. B. Bull, Quincy (2), means for preventing boiler incrustation, electric incrustation preventer; W. I. Bunker, Chicago, spring attachment for platform rocking-chair; J. J. Buzenbenz, Chicago, vending apparatus; J. J. Clause and F. Budolph, Chicago, apparatus for applying varnish, etc.: D. E. Coulson, Galegburg, slip joint and coupling for dental engines; S. M. Donst, Chicago, coin-oontrolled telephone guard; J. J. Elias, Chicago, attachment for piano case; C. E. Erickson, Chicago, tailor's table; H. P. Gerhardt and A. Gould, Chicago, machine for decorating circular moldings; G. Guptil, Elgin, plate-glass carrier, traveler for transport­ ing glass; J. J. Haves, Saybrook, tongue support; D. Kelley and J. J. Cox, Weed- man, bolster plate; E. Kinst, Chicago, ball bat; E. D. Ludlow, Chicago, trim­ mer for sewing machine; B. C. Munger, Chebfense, fruit can; W. B. Patterson, Chicago, underground electric cable; L. B. Powers, Brocton, gate hinge; H. Beid, Guilford, plow; J. P. Beyburn, Normal, tug; J. E. State, Chicago, roll- paper holder and cutter; A. A. Strom, Austin, switch signal .stand; G. H. Williams, Chicago, stage scene appara­ tus; E. Wright, Chicago, machine foi parating organic matter from aqueous components; T. Wrigley, Oak Park, dressing tool for emery wheel and grind, atones; T. D. Yates, Chicago, key fastener. --Following is a brief extract of the re­ cent Supreme Court decision, virtually wiping bucket-shops out of existence: William Hobey, of Jacksonville, was indicted and convicted uuder the act relating to bucket- shops, and the case was carried to the 8u- Ereme Court. Sobey was agent for Robert lindbloin & Co., members of tke Board of Trade of Chicago. On opening business at Jackson­ ville he reoeived quotations and placed thetu on a black-board for public inspection, and proposed to buy and sell on the Chicago mar­ ket and receive margins therefor. Charles James bought 5,0(K) bushels of wheat and the sauie quantity u2 cum, and put up a margin of 2 cents a bushel iu October for May delivery. A few days later he closed the deal at an advance, without having either received or delivered any grain. The court finds that he did not get the grain tor actual use, but simply for speculation. By the revised criminal code of 1871 it is a criminal offense to deal in options, and the court says that the purchase of grain or other commodities for future delivery is a gambling contract if the intention at the time of purchase was to make future settlements and not for actual delivery. But if either party con­ tracted in good faith and intended to deliver the grain, it is not a gambling contract,. It is clear from the evidence, says the court, thai this man had an office where the buying and selling of grain en margins was carried on. He is not allowed to shield himself from criminal responsibility because h? mads no in­ quiry of his customers as to whether they intended to receive or deliver the'grain. Neither is it a defense to Bhow that he took orders from persons aud sent them to Lindblom & Co., who are members of the Chica­ go Board of Trade, and that firm executed tha orders and then reported to him. It was the legislative intention, the court holdB, to do away with the evilB resulting from bucket-shops and bucket-shopping, and to suppress the vice of gambling in grain and other products, so detrimental to the interests and welfare of the public. No other construction of the act would De consistent with the letter or spirit of tile law. The court is of the opinion that it is no longer possible in this State, under any shift or device whatever, to keep an office or other place where people, under thia pretense of buying arain or other products, may engage in speculation in futures and gambling upon the rise and fall of the markets. All legitimate commercial transactions, on the board of trade or elsewhere, must be upheld and enforced, and it may undoubtedly be true that agencies might be established throughout the State for carrying on legitimate business; but thia agency, the court says, was manifestly not of that character. --Galena dispatch: A la ge.crop of railroad surveyors is operating just across the Illinois State line, between Shulls- burg and Benton, Wis. It is understood that the patty is laying out a line for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Com­ pany from Shullsburg to Galena, which point is to be its terminus. --The management of Barnam's show forced about 5,000 people out into a driv­ ing rain-storm by taking down the tents immediately upon the closing of the per* formance at Jacksonville the other day. --At the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the other dav, the city meat inspectors seized and confiscated 2,700 pounds o| diseased meat. The Tribune says: "There is great excitement at the Stock "Sards over the affair, which, it is be< lieved, confirms the rumors that lumpy- Jawed cattle were being sold to Chicago consumers. Just how the parties con, cerned disposed of the diseased meat ii not known, but it is believed that it was sold to peddlers for half the price o! healthy cattle, and was then hawkec IMPORTANT MEASURE. THE PROPOSED REPUBLICAN FEDERAL ELECTION LAW. It WU1 in *11 Probability Pass Both tkf House and Saasto-StortllBf ftfiiTM In Connection with Election* in the North MM! the South. [From the Chicago Tribune,] The Republic n members of the Honse of Bepreaentatives have at last agreed upon a plan for Federal supervision of the election of members of that body which they believe will put an end to the frauds and bulldozings which have for years deprived of representation the ma­ jority of the voters in nearly thirty dis­ tricts in the Gulf State. The measure adopted is a compromise one and will be supported both by those who favored the more radical methods suggested by Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge and those who were in doubt as to the political expediency of taking any action on the subject. It will also, owing to its moderate nature, re­ ceive the support of all the Republicans ! in the Senate. j That which it is proposed to do--it Was first recommended by Congressman Row- Sll of thi* State--is to take the present supervisor system, with which the resi­ dents of most large cities are familiar, for it has been employed for years with the best of results, an 1 to increase the powers of the officers so that they shall save chtrge of elections instead of being little more than mere onlookers, as at present. The constitutionality of the 1 <w 48 it now stands has not been questioned, and the legality of the broader provisions it is now proposed to adopt will not be serionsly disputed by any one. At present the supervisors, of wfiom there are two for each precinct, do little more than oversee first the registry and then the voting. If they become aw^re af any intimidation or fraud the most they can do is to report the facts to the House of Representatives, which body can do what it pleases with them. It is proposed that ttere be three supervisors, ane of one party and two of the other, and that Wftile there shall still be local jndges and clerks of election, it sti&U be the supervisors who shall have charge of che registry, say who shall and who Bhttll not vote for Representatives, count the votes and send the returns to the Chief Supervisor for the district, who shall tabulate them and certify to the Clerk of the House the name of the man who has received the most votes and is entitled to the seat. If it should appear that the local elec­ tion officers have through the Governor or other State authoiities certified to :he election of one man, and the super­ visors of another, then the name of the latter must be put on the roll, and the former may contest if he pleases. He will uot be suite red to thrust himself into a ieat which belongs to another. This is the important, the esseut al provia on of the law. Without this it would be of the least use where most needed. The pres­ ent law has on various occasions done good service in Chicago. In the Gulf States it is worthless. The Democrats will fight this measure is they do everything which tends to stop fraud, but they have no expectation they will be able to defeaMt. Senator Carlisle admits that it will go through--that it 3annot be t Iked to death in tha Senate, as some of his foolish collea^aas have iaggested. Ho says: "Obviously the Republicans will make this a party measure and hold every man in line. If they want to pass such a bill they have the votes to do it. We may protest and struggle for a time and pro­ long the con< est as much as we please, the Republicans o«n stay here as long as we can, and sooner or later the bill must pass." . Therefore he recommends that the great fight on tne law sha 1 come otf after its passage, and that the effort be to make it odious. It provides that when a Judge of the United States Circuit Couit shall be petitioned by 100 >oters in a Congres­ sional district he must appoint supervis­ ors for it It is well known that there are bat a few districts in the country where Federal supervision would be needed, so that the cost, which would be about $15,000 per district, would not be great. Senator Carl.sle advises: "In every Congressional district in the land the Democrats should see to it that supervisors are petitioned for and ap­ pointed by the courts. The resulting army of federal officeholders, their inter­ ference with the rights of citizens and with the usual metuods or conducting elec­ tions, and the enormous expense incurred by this system of party espionage and in­ terference, will make the law so infamous and odious that the people will demand that U be repealed. If we permit this law to be applied only where the Repub­ licans want it applied--iu certain dis­ tricts of the South--public sentiment will not be aroused; but if we insist that if thts law is to be enforced anywhere it must be enforced everywhere, we shall be able quickly to kill the whole system by making it odious." This could be done, and if it were the country would have at a cost of perhaps six million dollars the honestest and fairest election for Representatives that has ever been held. The result would be either general satisfaction with the ex- tieriment and thankfulness to the Repub-icans for the good measure they had put through; or if the voters were displeased with having to pay a lew millions to get a square election their wrath would fall not on the law, or those who passed it, but on the plotting Democrats who caused the unnecessary expenditure. At­ tempts to make a pood law "odious" gen­ erally result in rooting it the more firmly in popular favor. Startling Figures. • Washington dispatch to Chicago Inter Ocean.] The national election bill will probably be presented to the House this week. In the debate upon it facts will be presented which ought to startle the cointry. Here are some of them: The official count of the votes cast for the election of Repre­ sentatives to the Fiftieth Congress shows that the State of Kansas elected seven Representatives by a poll of 271,571 \otes, while Mississippi also sent seven Representatives to the same Congress-- the s me number--but they were elected by only 44,053 votes. The State of New Jersey also elected seven Fepresentatives who required 22H,373 votes for their election; while on the other hand Georgia's ten Representatives were elected by 27.475 votes. Connecti­ cut elected four RepresentAives by 123,105 votes and four Representatives from different Congressional districts from the State of Ohio were elected by 151,523 votes, while only 1G.065 votes were necessary to <-eat the Representx- tives from four Congressional districts in South Carolina. The Sixth Congres­ sional District of Ohio elected one Rep­ resentative by 38,290 votes, or 11,445 more votes than the whole State of Geor­ gia gave her delegat on of ten Repre­ sentatives. It required 3t>,864 votes to elect one Representative in the Twelfth District of Ohio, 9,394 more than Geor­ gia ci>Bt for the ten members composing her delegat.on. The Thirteenth District of Ohio gave its single Representative 39,31 j votes, or 11,840 more than Georgia cast for her ten. Of the eleven Congres­ sional districts of Michigan, ten cast, each of them, more votes for their .Rep­ resentatives than werd found neces­ sary for the election of the ten from the "Empire State" of the South. Oregon's one Represent ative was elected by :>4,!>.Yt votes, or more than double the number polled for the whole Georgia delegation. In the Eleventh District of Illinois it required 34,2t>6 votes to elect one Representative, while in Georgia 27,- 475 elected ten- No less than 3»,117 bal­ lots were required to send only one Rep­ resentative to Congress from the Second District of Connecticut, 11,742 more than elected the whole Georgia delega- Congraas, who were elected by 461,887 votes; while Georgia and Mississippi Bent together no less than seventeen Rep> resentatives to the same legislative body, who were elected by only 72,428 votes: while in Vermont it required more votes to elect her two Representatives than were necessary in Georgia for the election of ten. The Empire State of New York hi s thirty-four Congressional Districts, thirteen of which--the Thir­ teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seven­ teenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twen­ tieth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twentv-seventh, Twen­ ty-eighth, and Thirty-fourth -- gave each of them^nio e votes to its Repre­ sentative than Georgia gave to her dele­ gation of ten; and so this sngeestive com­ parison might be extended through the list of all the Northern States. The startling inequality of Congressional representation is even greater now th*n it was before the war, and "the Solid South" remains as largely the gainer in this important matter as she became through the readjustment of the labor question within her borders. It is no wonder she ostentatiously declares that she would not have her slaves returned to her if she could. She was compelled in the ante-bellum days to feed and clothe her slaves and also to provide for them comfortable living Quarters, whereas at the present time tne former owner Is completely relieved from these heavy burdens and is even enabled to defr md them indirectly of a large share of their hard-earned wages and crop profits. (•ratitude Counts Net Ciwt. Nobody knows how much money the dependent pension bill will take from the National Treasury, for there are no data on which to make an estimate, it . will be a very lar^e amount, but the feeling is that the money is a moral debt to the men who risked their lives in the service of their country; that payment has bsen delayed too long already; that the coun­ try is rich and can afford tp pay, and that, therefore, it shouldbegin to discharge its debt as soon ns possible. In doing this the I'nited States sets an example to ail the other nations of the world. It takes care of its veterans after they have be­ come unable to fight, and provides for them, not merely because they became incapacitated in its service, but because it owes them a debt of gratitade for what they did for it. And as they risked not only their lires but the happiness and livelihood of those dependent on them, so the nation's gratitude extends to their widows and orphans and their dependent parents. In other countries disabled vet­ erans sometimes receive a small pension and sometimes »n asylum when they have no homes of their own, but nowhere a pension like this, simply for services rendered, and nowhere to provision made for their families. The country owes everything to its citi­ zen soldiers, and it is paying them hon­ estly, without stopping to count the cost. --Philadelphia Inquirer. M»j. Me Kin ley Will Figlit. Maj. William McKinley has announced his intention to be a candidate for the Fi!ty-second Congress in the new district in which he finds himself by the pe ry- mander of the Democratic Legislature. The Major was elected to the present Cqnaress from the Eighteenth Ohio Dis­ trict by a majority of over 4,000. The new district into which he hns been thrown by the gerrymander is No. lti, and it is supposed to have a Democratic ma­ jority or 2,500 Tote a. But this does not frighten the Major. He believes the prestige he has obtained by his tariff Bill will help pull him through. "I don't be­ lieve in running away when there is a fight on hand," he said yesterday.-- Washington telegram. A Federal JSloetiou Itilt. The manly and pat r .otic way ia to frame a measure which will secure an honest vote and an houe^t count in Northern States, and to make that the law for all States alike. If it can not be enforced at the South, or can not be en­ forced without a kind of interposition which the Government deems inexpedient, that will be the misfortune of Souther* voters, but not the fault of Congress. When Southern States advance one bj one so far in civilization that laws >ire re- spec ed and can be enforced, in these States also the people will recover theii right of self-government.-- A'e» ForA Tribune. ' . Justice Before Sentiment. If the South has money to spare fo< building a Grant monument, an some of her papers are asserting, she would do much better to expend it in bringing to justice some of her citizens who stufl ballot-boxes and assassinate Federal officials.--81. Louis Ulobe-Democrat. CURIOUS FACTS. ' THE BASE-BALL WAR. BOTH THE NATIONAL LEAGUES • MAINTAIN THE FIGHT. - FLASHES OF FUN. DISASTER IN (faa* of the Clubs Making Any Monoy- The Chicago Brotherhood Team Playing at a Heavy Lo«t~Ne<r> auid Motes ot the dame. [Boston dispatch.] President Soden, of the Boston League Club, does not take a very optimistic view of the ball situation. He, in fact, thinks that a crisis is imminent. "I cannot see," said he, "how any club in the whole country can be making any money, except possibly the local Brother­ hood club. Even here the combined at­ tendance at both grounds does not equal tha attendance at our grounds last year. It is only a question of how long a good many directors will keep up putting their hands in their pockets for money through pride, but none of them will do it very much longer if the present lack of in­ terest continues. The division of in­ terest has killed the gam". Sever U clubs in both leagues are ready to drop dead. The clubs in Pittsburg; Cleveland, and Buffalo were never ajple to make money when base-bail intere-t was t.t its height. Hove they can make any this year I cannot see. There will be much more money sunk by each league this year than there was made last year. I do'a't think it would help the matter at all if either league were to adopt a non-conflicting schedule. Interest outside of Boston seems dead, and it would do no good. In­ terest in New York is perfectly dead. People used to talk base-ball when I went iii to see them on business there; now it is the last subject mentioned. It is just so here. No one comes in here and talks base-ball the way they did last year.' I have little curiosity myself even is to what the relative standing of the clubs may be. Only one league can live and make money; it is a question yet which will die." PJaying to Losing Business. [Chicago special.] The Herald, in reviewing the base-ball outlook, says; New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston are the king­ bolts of the Brotherhood. Without those sities the organization would have gone to pot long ago. The Brotherhood ia confessedly a failure in Pittsburg. Buf­ falo, Cleveland, and Brooklyn. The or­ ganization has made no money in Chicago ar Philadelphia. It is doubtful if it ia #ven on tne season's play iu these two towns. The Herald has all along main­ tained that the Brotherhood could not succeed in the face of opposition and the pay-rolls it foolishly attempted to carry. As Chicago is one of the great base-bail towns of the country, let us sit down :md figure out where one of the bolts of the Brotherhood will stand at the end of the season, provided, of course, the Brother­ hood lasts that length of time. Here ia the salary list of the Chicago Brother­ hood players: omiskey.. ,..$7,500 Ryan '... .98,000 'OuiTy..8,00.) I>wyer -- 2,500 Farivl! 2,500 BaaiianU..,...,... '2,500 Uarliog.... a.500 Barstoa..,.'. 2,000 among the residents of the n&Qm; JU» tion. The great State of Indiana sent - - - ' thirteen Representative* to the Fiftieth W'Vi: , ; & V- MM tncts sra-fi: KENTUCKY has two counties in which there is not a single church. WHEBE the Custer massacre occurred but a few years since is now a flourish­ ing city. A MATHEMATICIAN estimates that a machine of one-horse power would keep 27,000,000 watches running. AN Englishman has invented what he claims is a practical application of the idea of stilt» with wheels. The wheels are fastened to the feet, as stilts are, and each acts as a sort of in­ dependent bicycle. They go very fast when one has iearned to walk on them. A NEW botanical garden in the Alps of Valais is situated on a cone-shaped knoll about 200 feet high, at an altitude above sea-level of more than 5,000 feet, Plants from all the Alpine regions of the globe will be cultivated. EIGHT pin manufactories in New England produce annually 2,000,000 packs of pins. Each pack contains 8,360 pins, which makes a total yearly production of 6,720,000,000 pins, These pins are usually put up in large cases, each case containing 672,000 pins. A NEW innovation at funerals here re cently, is silk skull cups, to be worn by the minister in charge and the bearers at the grave, also bv the male mem­ bers of the family. The caps are put on in the carriage and the ordinary hats left there, the capt to be worn all the time at the grave. It will prevent many colda. A SPANISH woman's mantilla is held sacred by law, and cannot be seized for debt, says the Dry Goods Chron icle. There are three kinds of man­ tillas which, de rigeur, form the toilet of the Spanish lady. The first is com­ posed of white blonde, used only on state occasions, birthdays, bull fights and Easter Monday, the second is black blonde, trimmed with dedp lace; and the third, for ordinary wear, is made el black silk, trimmed with velvet. : Too Sociable. "Dat man is too sociable to suit me, said a negro, referring to a man whose name had been mentioned in conversa­ tion. "Too sociable?" someone fejoined. "Yas, Bah; dat's what he is. I likes fur er man. ter be friendly an' all dat, but when er man comes er round me like he done, w'y I jes nachully gits tired. He wuz all right 'fore he got so sociable, but now he is all wrong." "In what way did he become too sociable ?" "Wall, sah, he oome er cuttin' me wid er razor, er sharp one, too. Cut er g'ret big slice offen me, an' I doan like dat sorter sociability, I doesn't.1" Arkansato if#" O'Neill. L a C h a u i . , Koylc Baldwin......... I'fefifer Kiiu? Williamsta.... .. Total 4.0J0 4,000 4,000 4,00. 4,000 3,500 3,000 ..i*. •58,000 It will be seen that the five St. Louis players, and five mediocre players they ire, too, by the way, get $23,0110, or an average of $4,600 each, while Duffy, Ryan and Farrell, the cracks ef the team, «re the lowest salaried men in the list,. But. there are other interesting figures. Suppose an estimate of the expenses of the club be presented, iust to be fair to m>ryhody. Here is the table: "•layers' salaries 88,000 3vde. secretary 1,800 Uiiuson, advertising agntt .800 Advertising expenses in Chicago 6,000 "layers' I«.assessment for BruneU's salary, umpires' expenses, etc Srounil rent... Ground expenses, ushers, ticket-sellers. etc incidental expenses, including uniform*, Hupplits, and miscellaneous items Players' prize-money fund ut ague guarantee fund Ground improvements, including grand stand. l'>vt:lintf, etc. (low estimate);,... LVaveling expenses - 3,000 S.0VO 4,000 2,500 3.50J 5,000 ; expenses. Total 90,000 7,SCO 9107.50;) Deducting the $2,500 players' prize money and the $5,0 )0 League guarantee fund, which nolodv believes has ever been or ever will be" paid, leaves a net xtst of running the Chiogo Players' Club )f $100,000. To pay tbese expenses the Chicago Brotherhood Club must average 3,000 paying people to every game sched­ uled, ram or shine, at 50 cents a skull. In Philadelphia and Pittsburg, where 25 gents admission is charged, they must average 0,000 people to a game. No sane man who has ever had any experience in piofessional baso-ball atteudance believes that they will average 1,50'J people per game during the season, to say nothing about games postponed by rain. On this basis it ie safe to estimate that the total loss of the Chicago Play­ ers' Club for 1890 will amount to $50,000 in round figures, to say noth­ ing of the promised prize money and League guarantee fund. It is not sur­ prising that some of the prominent stockholders of the Chicago Brotherhood alnb who were very enthusiastic at the start have disposed of their stock. It is' rumored that one official of the club, who oomes in clo^e contact with the financial department, has sold his stock at par and glad to get out. Another official is re­ ported to have sold a good slice of his holding and is hoping to dispose of the rest before tW club gets into deeper financial water. In view of the present turbulent con­ dition of the Brotnerhoo I it is no wonder that the players are putting up the poor- ast kind of ball. If they know anything they must know that they are playing t'o losing crowds, and knowing this it is not aatural they should exert themselves to nny alarming extent. When it comes to pass that players must critically scan the grand stands before they begin their games, base-ball, so far as those players ire concerned, has sunk to one of its lowest depths. The Brotherhood has oeen led to ruin by a lot of fireside base­ ball fanatics who knew more about Stovey's ability to run a base or Ryan's reliability as a batsman than they really Knew about the organization and man­ agement of a league. Ihe players will ind this out some day.. And that day is aot so very far away, either. Base-Ball Notes. The Omaha club has released Charles Sorters and Albert Inks. The Indiannpolis Interstate League Club will trv to play Sunday ball. The transfer of the Buffalo Interna­ tional Club to Grand Bapids has been completed. Eiteljorg, released by Anson, is con­ sidered the crack twirler of the Inter- it*te League. Manager Lewis has resigned from the Lincoln, Neb., team. Captain Castine iucceeds him. Denny Lyon«, of tbe Athletic Club, has been fined $100 and indefinitely suspend- 3d for drunkenness. Manager Harry Wright of the Phillies is improving rapidly. He can now dis­ tinguish light from darkness- Fred Dun lap must realize by this time that he is not regarded any longer as the king of second baseman. There doea uot seem to be any mad rush to secure his services. Seventeen men now playing with the League have been in the business ten or more years, as follows: With Boston, ;hree; New York, five; Cincinnati, four; Chicago, three; Brooklyn, two; Pitts- jurg, one. Of the twenty-six players aow in the Playero' League who have leen ten years' service. Boston and New fork have six each, Chicago four. Cleve­ land and Buffalo t! ree each, Pittsburg iwo, Brooklyn and Pnuade'phia ens each. (Colled from our Exchanges^! VAIJT of marble--the sculptor. War l» an auctioneer like a king? Because the people most do his bid­ ding. "THE early bird catches, the worm," but it is the late "lark" that brings on the "snakes." IT is not so great a wonder, come to think, that so many people are illiterate. Everybody was born that way. MELANCHOLY days--Bob Easy--Cheer tip, Jack. You shouldn't borrow trouble. Jack Short--Humph! It's the only thing my credit is good for. Yoc never see the man who dozes »ra church going to sleep at a base ball match. But then there is quite a dif­ ference in the style of delivery, "No," SAID the society belle at her toilet. "I never blush, though I do sometimes change color." And she tried an entirely new brand of rouge. Miss Science--Do you believe in the Survival of the Fittest,Mr. Jones? Mr. Joues--No, there's a bug down my back, and I believe in the Profundity of the Unreachable! PONSBY (to tailor)--1 should think you'd be tired standing up all day cut­ ting out garments. Tailor--I don't ipind that. What makes me tired is to be stood up for six months for the pay­ ment of a suit of clothea." ANOTHER Epidemic--First Doctor (to country practitioner)--Well, how are yon getting on? Have you many patients? Second ditto--Alas, no; we have had a regular health epidemic in our neighborhood of late. Miss BBASH (to timid suitor).---What are the finest words in "Hamlet," Mr. Slow? Mr. Slow--Never read it. Miss Brash -- For shame! (Dramatically) "Speak, I charge thee, speak!" Mr. Slow gets on his knees and speaks.) "I ALWAYS work when I get the chance," and the tramp told it as naturally as a fisherman. "I don't beg, then, for this work is meat and drink to me." "You work when you get the chance? At what?" "The growler, mum." THOMPSON--You look pale and thin. Johnson. Why will you persist killing yourself working night and da., %uch weather as this ? Johnson--I am trying to earn money euough to pay the expenses of a week's rest in the country. GRANDMOTHER (to little urchin)-- Come here, Albert, and tell thia lady how you gained the prize for reading. Albert--Oh, quite easy. It was George Boussin who got it: but, on coming home, we two had a game of marbles and he lost. POKEY--I was surprised at what Col. Hookem just told me about his latest fishing trip. Hokev--Pshaw! When you've known the Colonel as long as I have vou'll never be surprised at any­ thing be says. Pokey--He says he got very few fish. Hokey--What!!! FORCE of Habit--Auctioneer Muller (at the dinner given in honor of his daughter's betrothal)--Gentlemen and ladies, i have to announce to you that my daughter Elsie has been to-day betrothed to Mr. ^ngler, for the first, for the second, for , the third and last time. You say the brother of the young lady pulled your noad?" inquired Cholly. "Did you we-sent it?" "Didn't I ? said Fweddy, the veins in his fore heed swelling with indignation. "Bah Jove, 1 told him if he evah did again, bah Jove, I'd have him ah- wested!" IT was rumored around it was a case of attempted suicide, but the officers bundled bim into the patrol very unsen timentally indeed. "Poor fellow,' sigHed the old lady near the wheel "tired of life, I suppose he became filled with despair--" "He l»ecame tilled with bad whisky," growled the geant, and the wagon drove off. Curious but True* "There are some curious things in this life," said an experienced gentleman the other day. "Curious things among the wicked and depraved. Havo you ever noticed it? For instance, you let a certain minister be called in to con­ duct a funeral of a fallen woman, and ever after he will be called to attend nine out of ten funerals of the same class of women. Let a minister of ciate at the funeral of a sporting ma and the same minister will be calleu again and again to do the same service, no matter what he may have said at previous funerals. Not many years ago a popular and prominent minister was called to officiate at the funeral of a sport. There was a very large attend­ ance of this fraternity, and the minis­ ter, at a glance, took occasion in bis re­ marks to inject some fiery darts into the crowd about the lives they were lead­ ing. In the language of one of them he 'roasted us.' 'That's,so,' said another, 'but he told the truth and we can't blame him. And if he is around he shall always conduct the funeral of the boys.'" It's the same about the doctors. You let a certain doctor be called to attend a ca«e of poisoning or shooting or cuttiug among the shifting population and ever afterward he is apt to be called again. It's curious but true." IMAYVILLETHE SCENE OP TER­ RIBLE DEVASTATION. ^ BulMisgi Rwayt Away by Seven Lives Knows to Havo B« In a WrecM Which Follow** the DU»» aster. Mayville (Ky.) dispatch: At Baft creek, six miles above here, t*H* - black clouds met and burst. Tit* creek jumped over, and it swept liki#? driftwood several dwelling houses an# their frightened occupants. The ston* culvert ou the Chesapeake & Ohio rait* road oyer Bull creek was washed oufc into the iMver and about 12 o'clock last; night, while the storm was at its height^ the west bound freight-train ran ftita the washout, causing a fearful wrecks The engine and nine cars were piled one ' on top of another almost in the creek bottom. The following were buried ip\. ,• ENGINEER C. C. ROA.OCAP of Greenup countv. - • : ? FIREMAN tfORRIS HONAKE& of Lewis county. : BKAKEMAS CHARLES EATON. ^ The t^ain was the first section ef freight ?»<?., 33/ drawn by engine Net. 154, which Is one ot the largest as well < as finest engines on the road. The en­ gine is now out of sight in quicksand. The train was running over thirty milee per hour. A little later an east-boaad mixed passenger train would have passed over the fatal culvert, when the loss of life would have been appalling. It seems incredible that so many cars could be jammed ir\to so small a hole as there is at this culvert. James Irwin had a portable saw-mill located several hundred yards up Ball creek, above the railroad. The clouds suddenly bursting caused a rapid rise fa the creek, already badly swollen by the storm. Farmers say the creek rose two feet per minute, and the water looked like a wall twenty-five feet high when it got to the railroad. The saw-mill was lifted from its fastenings and with over a hundred big logs hurled violently against the raflroaid stone culvert This is what probfbljr caused It to give way. Huge stones weighing several tons were carried by the creek long distances. The creek rose two feet higher than it had been fa forty years. The fury of the storm eaused many persons on Bulf creek to abandon their home9 and take to the hills, else the loss of life would haws been greater. » '0- Some Odd Books. "At Warsenstein, in Germany; there is perhaps one of the moat curiously original collections of books in the world. It is really a botanical ̂ collec­ tion. Outwardly, each volume presents the appearance of a block of wood, and that is what it actually is; but a minute examination reveals the fact that it is also a complete history of the particular tiee which it represents. At the back of the book the bark has been removed from a space which allows tbe scientific and the common name of tbe tree to be placed as a title for the book. One side is formed from the split wood of the tree, showing its grain and natural fracture; the other tide shows the wood when worked smooth and varnished. One end shows the grain as left by the saw, and the other the finely polished wood. On opening the book it is found to contain the fruit, needs, leaves and other products of tbe tree, the mo^s which usually grows upon its trunk, and the insects which feed upon the different parts of the tree. These are supplemented by a well- printed description of the habits, usual location, and manner of growth of the tree. In fact, everything which has a bearing upon that particular tree secures a place in this wonderful, useful and valuable collection.. WHEN an exquisite young gentleman 19 first married he uses the softest aide of a velvet brush to polish his silk hat; and after the seventh child has come along he sometimes uses the blacking brush instead. TROUBLESOME INDIANS. if Mmwf Settle** leaving Their Hoira aadT '""" Seeking Safer Quarters. Miles City (Mont.) dispatch: Latest reports from the scene of the - Indian troubles are not. reassuring. Four more families have arrived from tbe menaced settlements in the Chey­ enne country, and a man just in, who struck the road from the agency about forty miles south of here, reports pass­ ing three more families on their way and a number more following. There has been no news direct from the scene for two days and what nas happened no one knows. As the trouble is examined into more closely the more serious does it become, c and the more need is there for prompt ~ and effective action. Two weeks or more ago while Deputy Sheriff Johnson • was out on the Rosebud summoning ' jurors three Cheyenne® stopped him and warned him to return. He pushed them aside and kept on, the Indians following. In a few minutes he reached the top of a hill and, looking down, saw a party of Clieyennes engaged in a war dance. He returned just a week aco. Ggorge Way, a settler, was stopped on the road by Clieyennes and ordered back and oboyed the order. Wolf Voice, a Chey­ enne government scout, a friendly young Indian, a week ago warned travelers to keep off the Rosebud, as Two Moons and his braves bad blood In th4ir eves. Two Moons is believed to be the leader of the angry bucks. He is a no­ ble specimen of the red man, weighing nearly 20*) pounds, standing over sis feel high and brave as a lion. It is believed the story of a messiah coming, as well as his people's bad treatment by the gov- criiiiiQht, has had much to do with the present trouble. « DUN S WEEKLY REVIEW. ^ ' -- -- " The Bvelaew of the Couatrjr CMraea*':" ' dented In Toluno. ' v R. G. Dun Si Co.*s Weekly review of"* trade says: | Speculation has been neither large ii volume nor enthusiastic in tone d: the last week, but the legitimate ness of the country continues uu{ dented in volume for the feasor highly encouraging in prospects. has been quite a decline in exports : New VorK for two weoks past, tho value having been 14 per cent below that of the same weeks last year, while in imports here a moderate increase continues, that of last week be­ ing 5 per cent. But the flow of currency to this center supplies demands and makes the market easy. Interior cities report rather more demand for money, and at Boston rates are rising, at Chicago and St. Louis steady, and Mi Philadelphia dull, not much commercial paper offering; but at most points the dc/nand is fair, with a sufficient supply. Crop prospects begi n to rule all mar­ kets at this season, aud these are dis­ tinctly improving The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 212, as compared with 205 last week. For the corres­ ponding week of last year the figures wer* 250. : REBELUOUSJMPLOYESL *4 Meaahen of London's Kail Hwitoa to w State of Rohelllojb London cable: Dissatisfaction and disorder among the employes of the general postoffice have been increasing since the employes attempted to make the demonstration on May 1, which was suppressed. Every effort they have since made by holding meetings and consultations to formulate their requests for a presentation of griev­ ances have met with similar opposition from Postmaster-General Raikes, who treats outside organization on the part , of the employes as a violation of the rules of tho service rendering the^ liable to dismissal. The men, exasper­ ated by tuis treatment, are in a state oft insubordination and are likely to Quik work at any moment at the general! postoffice and all its branches; wUhut^ the metropolitan limits. SOME MAY DIE. ^ , lee-Cream - Poleoaa the Members ef Church Ftealo at Knoxvill*, Teoa. -1*.-: Knoxville (Tenn.) dispatch: The See*0 ond Baptist church and Sunday-sehoal gave a picnic near the city the othe day. Among the refreshments servet during tho day was a lar«e quantity ei, ice-cream. All who partook of the. cream were taken suddenly aad serioua*? ly sick. Physicians were called and rendered all possible aid. Sixteen children aedt ladies are still in a very critical condi­ tion and some of them wlli die. 1 The cream had been standing for two* days in the freezers. The men who IT gives some folks peace of miod to I made the cream have bwu threatened.